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Hi
I own a HP Pavilion Elite HPE-030sc system. This one have the MSI MS-7613 motherboard with Intel P55 Express Chipset.
The OS is Windows 7 64bit.

 

I want to change the data disk (the second disk) with a new Seagate 4TB hard drive. Original there are 2 750GB drives in it. The original boot disk stays there, so no problem with the BIOS.

 

What works: Boots fine. DiskPart - clear - GPT - add primary partition - yes got my 4TB partition.
What dose not work: Format drive (NTFS)

 

When I start the format, it runs for some time (5-10 minutes), the the PC reboots. Sometimes it gives a blue screen for 2 seconds.
I have tried to format via Disk Management and via DiskPart. Also boot to Safe Mode and did the format, but same problem.

 

Please help me....

 

I'm on the latest official BIOS version for this system.
But are there any separate firmware update for the SATA controller?
That will be part of the P55 chipset, right?

 

regards Georg

 

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I did find a solution to this problem.

Just go to intel.com and download a newer "intel rapid storage driver".

I did not take the lastest ver. 13.xxxx

Read on some wiki that my chipset was not supportet.

So just go for the ver. 12.9.0.1001.

And Wupti, all 4GB was there, and quict format took only short time as expected.

 

The WRONG answer you give me, and point to the MS site, is if the disk should be the boot disk.
But please read my Q. I want this to be at DataDisk only. And Win7 fully support this. So when when jus the the OS is booted, there is no councern about BIOS.

 

/Georg

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Hi, 

 

Your PC was first introduced by HP in 2009 and most likely does not have UEFI BIOS. You have MBR partitioning. You need GPT to exceed 2.2 TB limit for accessing HDD's greater than 2.2 TB.

 

I think you will have to create two 2TB partitions to use the 4TB HDD. Or convert the disk to GPT for use as one data drive. Conversion instructions are in the Microsoft link below. The boot drive cannot be converted to GPT.

 

Please see here for more info on MBR vs GPT.

 

Please see below:

 

This information is from a Windows Support site found here.

 

HDD Size.PNG

 

Jaco

 

****I am not an HP employee****

 

Please give a" Kudos, Thumbs Up" if advice received is relevant or" Accept as Solution" to assist other forum users having a similar problem.

 

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I did find a solution to this problem.

Just go to intel.com and download a newer "intel rapid storage driver".

I did not take the lastest ver. 13.xxxx

Read on some wiki that my chipset was not supportet.

So just go for the ver. 12.9.0.1001.

And Wupti, all 4GB was there, and quict format took only short time as expected.

 

The WRONG answer you give me, and point to the MS site, is if the disk should be the boot disk.
But please read my Q. I want this to be at DataDisk only. And Win7 fully support this. So when when jus the the OS is booted, there is no councern about BIOS.

 

/Georg

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If you go to the HP Driver download, they still only offer  Version 9.6.0.1014 from 2010-06-30

 

/Georg

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Hi,

 

Good to hear you solved the problem.

 

Happy Computing!

 

Jaco

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F...  just did the Windows 10 upgrade.
And after the upgrade, a lot of errors on the 4TB 😧 drive ... aghhh
Have I lost my files!!!
Did ChkDsk and other scan tools. Fighting for 1½ day...

 

Ahh, then old me finally thought about this driver fix.
So after my morning coffee, I checked the driver for "IDE ATA/ATAPI-controller" (iaStorA.sys) and it WAS back to v9 something ... greee


Why windows upgrade did not bring this higher driver up to the new Win10.
Was soooo close to reformat the drive... glad I remember this driver issue.
I guess a bunch of other windows users (with TB harddisk) have this problem too.

 

/Georg

 

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